Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Sheffield Leafy Suburbs Tree Felling's Triggering House Prices CRASH! / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield City Council's 'Streets Ahead' PFI Contract with the Spanish Ferrovial owned Amey has been busing ripping the green out of England's greenest city England during 2017. As Sheffield's tree lined leafy suburbs that the estate agents so welcoming advertise are increasingly becoming no more. Trees that have taken more than a 100 years to reach their adult splendour have been felled in there thousands leaving behind either voids or a £20 sapling that rarely survives or is prone to falling prey to vandalism, all in exchange for large trees with capital values of between £50k and £150k now permanently gone!
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Interest Only Mortgage Time Bomb Warning from the CML / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: Kavinesh_A
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has provided a fresh warning that millions of homeowners who had taken out a Interest only mortgage to purchase their home many years ago are now facing the prospect of losing their home when there mortgage product reaches it’s expiry. The debate of an Interest only mortgage ticking time bomb has been rumbling on for many years but things have become more apparent this week as the Council of Mortgage Lenders highlighted that up to 1.9 million homeowners are going to start reaching the end of their mortgage lifespan and asked to pay the outstanding balance of what they owe. Unfortunately for many people who took out their mortgage 20 years ago they are now approaching retirement age and therefore seen as being too old to take out another mortgage product.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 23, 2017
First-time Home Buyers Already Facing Interest Rates Rrise Shock / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
The latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that while the average two-year fixed mortgage rate has experienced an increase at all loan-to-values (LTVs) in the past month, rates at 95% LTV have been the hardest hit, showing a 0.10% increase from September compared to a 0.03% increase in the average rate at 60% LTV.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Are Amey Street Tree Felling's Devaluing Sheffield House Prices? / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield City Council's Streets Ahead PFI Contract with the multinational Amey apparently also means that many of the Sheffield's tree lined suburbs are being stripped of virtually all of their big trees that have taken over 100 years to grow to their current magnificent house prices boosting splendour.
The big question is does felling of these community assets valued at approx £50k each (CAVAT method) also mean that the properties on these streets are also being felled / devalued?
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
London House Prices Are Falling – Time to Buckle Up / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: GoldCore
– London house prices fall in September: first time in eight years
– High-end London property fell by 3.2% in year
– House sales down by over a very large one-third
– Global Real Estate Bubble Index – see table
– Brexit, rising inflation and political uncertainty causing many buyers to back away from market
– U.K. housing stock worth record £6.8 trillion, almost 1.5 times value of LSE and more than the value of all the gold in world
– Homeowners and property investors should diversify and invest in gold
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Tools for Doing Successful Real Estate Marketing / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Kavinesh_A
Today you have all kinds of tools you can use for doing good marketing of real estate. Besides the traditional billboards and signs, there are also plenty of other tools that have been very successful if you want to sell property fast. Online marketing is essential of course, but offline real estate marketing should never be neglected. The following are some tools that should help you make successful real estate marketing.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, September 29, 2017
How to Spot Global Real Estate Bubbles / Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets
By: Rodney_Johnson
There’s an easy way to identify the cities with the big real estate bubbles. Just find out where the richest citizens live!
Back in late 2016, writer Peter Reegh put together a list of the 15 cities based on population of the wealthiest citizens, which was published on therichest.com. These same 15 cities remain at the top of this list today (only now more inflated than a year ago), allowing us to immediately know what areas to avoid.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
UK Mortgage 90% LTV Fixed Rate Deals Hit Record High / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
While many of the record low mortgage rates launched on to the market are reserved for those with a sizeable deposit, the latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the higher loan-to-value (LTV) market is going from strength to strength, seeing not only a significant drop in rate but also the number of two-year fixed rate deals on offer hitting an all-time high.
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Friday, September 15, 2017
Why it is Often Difficult to Sell a House Fast / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
It is indeed often quite a chore-like process, trying to sell a home for a decent price, without having to cut down on the actual worth of the home so much that you do not make as much profit as you would otherwise need to relocate to a nice home.
When attempting to sell your home quickly, there are some factors which may hinder such a process. This article will look at some of the reasons why such an undesirable sluggishness befalls your sales process.
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Monday, September 11, 2017
Number of BTL Mortgage Deals Highest in Almost a Decade / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data, not yet published, shows that the number of buy-to-let (BTL) products has increased by 7% in just one month to reach its highest level since December 2007.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Discounted Mortgages Make Better Deals for First Time Home Buyers / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
First-time buyers looking for a mortgage may instinctively opt for a fixed rate deal to give them the peace of mind of knowing their monthly repayments won’t change even if base rate rises. However, research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that first-time buyers may be significantly better off if they were to opt for a discounted variable rate deal instead, as the average fixed rate at 95% loan-to-value (LTV) is 0.82% more expensive than the current average discounted variable rate.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
UK Remortgage Customers Beware of Interest Rate Rises / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Remortgage customers have been able to benefit from some of the lowest rates ever seen, yet recent research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that time may be up for these competitive deals. The table below highlights how the rates available to those remortgaging have creeped up in the past six months, with the average two-year fixed rate for those remortgaging now even higher than a year ago.
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Thursday, August 03, 2017
How Much Money Do First-Time Home Buyers Need for a Deposit in the UK? / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
The dream of buying a home one day is something that many people share. For some, realising this dream can be a long journey filled with questions, apprehension, and confusion. Of course, one of the biggest questions people have is how much of a deposit they need to save in order to buy a house in the UK? This one simple question helps to determine if it’s possible to even purchase a home, and when it may actually happen.
Monday, July 31, 2017
Buy-to-let Mortgage Interest Rates Still Falling / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: MoneyFacts
Despite the increased scrutiny the buy-to-let (BTL) market has been facing, BTL mortgage competition is showing no signs of stopping. Research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the average two-year fixed BTL rate has fallen by 0.31% in one year, and even though the pace of the fall has slowed in recent months, the market has now recovered from the significant drop in products that was seen at the start of this year.
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Monday, July 24, 2017
Commercial Property Market Is Inflated and May Burst Again / Housing-Market / European Housing
By: GoldCore
by David McWilliams : Dublin property investors had better hope that Brexit happens soon.
They should also hope that it’s not just a ‘hard’ Brexit, but a granite Brexit — a Brexit that’s as hard as possible. They should be betting on the buffoonery of Boris Johnson, down on both knees praying for a massive barney between Davis and Barnier.
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Monday, July 24, 2017
First-time Home Buyers: Wave Goodbye to Record Low Interest Rates / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Borrowers have been treated to record low mortgage rates, but while rates remain at their lowest for those with large deposits, research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that for those with a small deposit the trend seems to be reversing. In fact, the average two-year fixed rate at 95% loan-to-value (LTV) has increased by 0.10% since April and a shocking 0.35% since the start of the year.
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Saturday, July 22, 2017
UK House Prices Momentum Crash Warns of 2017 Bear Market - Video / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The June 8th general election result delivering 'chaos and uncertainty' instead of 'strong and stable' not only shocked Britain's political and media establishment but also looks like the UK economy suffered a heart attack with confidence fast evaporating as the economy slows down which makes a mockery of the Bank of England MPC clowns persisting in their talk of raising UK interest rates this year. And along with evaporating economic confidence is the confidence in the UK housing market that risks bringing a 5 year housing bull market to an abrupt end! And this is even before we see the chaos that will ensue once Theresa May quits as PM that risks triggering another chaos inducing general election!
Friday, July 21, 2017
UK House Prices Momentum Crash Threatens Mini Bear Market 2017 / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The June 8th general election result delivering 'chaos and uncertainty' instead of 'strong and stable' not only shocked Britain's political and media establishment but also looks like the UK economy suffered a heart attack with confidence fast evaporating as the economy slows down which makes a mockery of the Bank of England MPC clowns persisting in their talk of raising UK interest rates this year. And along with evaporating economic confidence is the confidence in the UK housing market that risks bringing a 5 year housing bull market to an abrupt end! And this is even before we see the chaos that will ensue once Theresa May quits as PM that risks triggering another chaos inducing general election!
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
US Housing Market - Goodbye Hotel California / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Rodney_Johnson
Not everything about my recent move from Florida to Texas was tough. I didn’t enjoy the packing and cleaning, or the unpacking and more cleaning. But there was one thing that made me smile.I kicked my storage unit to the curb.
Five years ago we decided to downsize. There was no way to put 4,000 square feet of furniture into 2,100 square feet of space. We made tough decisions on what to keep and what to give away or sell, but in the end we had a few items that had no home in the new house, but we couldn’t part with.
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Monday, July 10, 2017
UK Mortgage Inetrest Rates Reach New Lows Despite Growing Economic Pressures / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data highlights that both the average two-year fixed rate and the two-year variable rate have fallen to their lowest point on Moneyfacts records, defying economic indicators.
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